Iran overruns Brit Embassy
Tman sends us an Associated Press link about the British Embassy being over ru by Iranian students. Yeah, nothing happens in Iran without official sanction from one part of the government or another;
In Washington, the White House issued a statement strongly condemning the attacks and saying Iran has an obligation to protect foreign embassies. The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Iran during the embassy siege in 1980.
The semiofficial Mehr news agency said embassy staff had left the compound before the mobs entered, but it also said those who occupied the area had taken six staff as hostages. It did not give their nationalities and the report was later removed from the website without elaboration.
Yeah, those strongly worded protests will stop them. Can you imagne the reaction from the Arba world if one of Iran’s embassies were treated like that? But that’s what Obama needs, another embassy crisis…then we can draw the comparisons to Jimmy Carter.
Category: Terror War
Given the organization of the attack (going for documents, etc), speculation is that these students are actually the Basij, the Mullahs’ SS unit. Most of Irans’ students are dead, in prison, or being seen as very, very loyal since their last two revolts (unsupported by the US) were bloodily crushed.
It’s a Muslim thang.
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Didn’t realize we were holding off with the comparisons to Carter…
hey maybe we should get some SAS and SBS guys killed in a dust storm
The Administration Press said that the, “White House issued a statement strongly condemning” the incursions? They must have gotten a different copy of the statement than the one I saw dribble from Ear Leader’s lips.
Hell, back in June of 09, he said, the government in Tehran “must understand that the world is watching”. And, the Mullahs said, go piss up a rope. So, now what, Mr. Present? What tough sounding talk are you going to pull out of your fourth point of contact?
According to Teleprompter Jebus, this was the “English” Embassy. Apparently Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can fuck off when it comes to diplomatic credentials in the Obama administration.
#3 OWB: the Carter comparing would be with the UK’s PM, Cameron. The SCOAMF has demonstrated he likes to piss on the UK, so he’s on the mullahs’ side, again.
@#7 Oh, yeah. Ever and always, with whoever is against US.